¹Israel ka sukdam chiangin, huaichiangin Ephraim thulimlouhna muhkhiak ahi, Samari gitlouhna toh; juauthei lah ahi ngal ua: huan, guta a luta, a po lamah suamhat pawlten a lok uh.

¹When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.

²A gitlouhna tengteng uh ka theigige chih a lungtangte un a ngaihtuah kei uh: tuin amau thilhihte ngeiin amaute a kainok hi; ka mai maah a om uh.

²And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.

³A gitlouhna un a kumpipa uh a kipaksak ua, a juau un a lal uh.

³They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

⁴A vek un angkawmte ahi uh; banghiam kangmiin silngouin a zelh suah masiah, tangbuang mekman jiaka mei sawn a tawp san thuk bang.

⁴They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

⁵I kumpipa uh niin lalte uain sain amau leh amau a kichinasak ua; simmohhatte toh a khut a zankhia.

⁵In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

⁶Mi a buk malam un, thuk bangin a lungtang uh lah mansain a bawl ngal ua; jankhuain a hehna uh a ama jingsangin meikuang bangin a kuang hi.

⁶For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

⁷Thuk bangin a sa vek ua, a vaihawmmite uh a negai uh; a kumpipa tengteng uh a pukta uh: kei lama hongpatau kua mah a om kei uhi.

⁷They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.

⁸Ephraim, mite lakah a kidiaha; Ephraim lumlehlouh tanghou beu ahi.

⁸Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

⁹Mikhualten hatna a gai ua, aman a theikei: ahi, a tung koilailai hiamah mulkang a om, a theikei hi.

⁹Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.

¹⁰Huan, Israel kisaktheihnain a mai ah thu a gen hi: hinapiin lah TOUPA a Pathian lamah a kihei kei ua, hiai tengteng jiakin, amah lah a zong kei uh.

¹⁰And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.

¹¹Huan, Ephraim vakhu hai bang, theihsiamna bei ahi; Aigupta lam a sam ua, Assuria kiangah a pai uh.

¹¹Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

¹²A pai chiang un, a tunguah ka len ka jak ding; vana vasate bangin amau ka kaikhe suk ding: ka sawi dinga, a kikhawmpi un a jaksa bang un.

¹²When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

¹³A tung uh a gik hi: kei akipanin a tamvakta ngal ua; a tunguah siatna: ka tungah a talekta ngal ua: a maute tat ut leng leng, ka siatna dingin juau a genta uhi.

¹³Woe unto them! for they have fled from me: destruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me: though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

¹⁴A lungtang utoh ka kiang lamah a kap kei ua, a lupna tunguah achiau zosop uh: buhlehbal leh uain zongin a kikaikhawm ua, a tungah a hel uh.

¹⁴And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.

¹⁵A khut uh sinsakin hatsakta mahleng, ka siatna dingin a ngaihtuah uhi.A kik ua, himahleh tungsanga ompa kiangah ahi kei; thalpeu gilou bang ahi uh: a lei hehna jiakin namsauin a lalte uh a puk ding uh: Aigupta gamah hiai nuihsana a omna uh ahi ding hi.

¹⁵Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.

¹⁶A kik ua, himahleh tungsanga ompa kiangah ahi kei; thalpeu gilou bang ahi uh: a lei hehna jiakin namsauin a lalte uh a puk ding uh: Aigupta gamah hiai nuihsana a omna uh ahi ding hi.

¹⁶They return, but not to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.